When Dallas Lincoln's Derrick Neal, a four-star prospect, according to 247sports.com, committed to Texas Tech this Wednesday, he was pledging to play football for the Red Raiders. But the two-sport standout Neal, a three-star point guard prospect, according to ESPN, may also want to play basketball at Texas Tech, according to a report by ESPN's Damon Sayles.

Neal averaged 12.7 points and 4.7 assists per game for a 28-7 Dallas Lincoln basketball team that reached the third round of the Class 4A playoffs. Neal and his brother, Erick, both have scholarship offers to play basketball at UT-Arlington and Long Island. How the Red Raiders hiring Tubby Smith as head basketball coach will influence their interest in the Neal brothers.

"I committed to play football," Derrick Neal told Sayles. "They want me and my brother to play for them, but I haven't talked to [Smith]."

Derrick Neal made 34 catches for 519 yards and seven touchdowns last season while running for 343 yards and six touchdowns on 53 carries, earning special teams MVP honors in his district last season. He became the 10th Class of 2014 player to verbally commit to Texas Tech, who has been loading on offensive skill position players. Four of the other nine players in the class are wide receivers (Cameron Baston, Jakari Dillard, Tevin Madison and Ian Sadler), along with two running backs (Justin Stockton and Demarcus Felton) and a quarterback (Patrick Mahomes).

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